The Lacito Archive provides free access to documents of connected, spontaneous speech, mostly in rare or endangered languages, recorded in their cultural context and transcribed in consultation with native speakers.

At present, the archive contains some 136 documents in 31 languages.

A sound archive with synchronized transcriptions

For linguistic science, language is first and foremost spoken language. The medium of spoken language is sound. The LACITO archive gives access to original recordings simultaneously with transcriptions and translations, as a guarantee of authenticity and as a resource for further research.

A structured, open architecture

The archived data is structured in accordance with the latest data-processing standards, in an open format, and may be downloaded for research purposes. The software used to prepare and disseminate it is open-source.